JPS59177688A - Paper money processor - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to banknote processing in which deposited banknotes are all sorted before being verified, for example, in automatic deposit machines and automatic money changers used in banking operations. Regarding equipment.

(b) Background of the Invention In addition to banknotes, the above-mentioned banknotes include cards used at financial institutions and valuables. In this discrimination, if the conveyance position of the inserted banknote is tilted or if it is too close to one side of the conveyance path, the reading of the banknote will be defective, and even a genuine banknote will be determined as a counterfeit banknote. That will happen.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem with city revenue, conventionally the banknote transport width was regulated and the banknotes were arranged in line. Therefore, [Minimum width banknotes are
There is a margin in the width of the banknote, and the banknote is tilted due to the difference in conveyance resistance between the left and right sides of the banknote, resulting in the above-mentioned drawback of poor reading.

(c) Purpose of the Invention The entire purpose of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling device that can maintain a good conveyance posture even when handling multiple types of banknotes with different shapes.

B) Summary of the Invention The present invention is characterized in that it is a banknote handling device in which a width adjustment means aligns all banknotes to the center of the conveyance path, and a stopper aligns the banknotes at an angle perpendicular to the conveyance direction. shall be.

09 Effects of issuing J According to this invention, the width shifting means shifts the banknotes to a predetermined range in the center of the conveyance path, so even if the banknotes are shifted too far to one side on the previous conveyance path, This can be corrected to the central conveyance path position, and the stopper aligns the banknotes so that they are perpendicular to the conveyance direction, so the banknotes conveyed in an inclined position are aligned in a position perpendicular to the direction in which the banknotes are conveyed. As a result, for example, if a separate section for banknotes is provided after the alignment point, poor discrimination due to too much one-sided punching in the brass annex or poor discrimination due to inclination can be completely prevented. Processing errors in the processing means provided at the subsequent stage can be prevented.

(f) Examples of the invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

The drawing shows the entire banknote processing device that aligns the conveyance posture of banknotes.
In FIGS. 1 and 2, belts stretched across pulleys 1 and 2° 3 and a conveyor belt 4 are configured as a pair separated by an appropriate distance on the left and right, and guide rollers 5 are provided on the 10th side. The rear side is provided with a conveyance path 6 for supply, and the rear side is a conveyance path 7 for alignment.
Once fully formed, the banknote is conveyed with the banknote direction as the horizontal direction, and the banknote is conveyed upward from the bottom of the supply conveyance path 6;
It is supplied to the upper part of the gear train conveyance path 7 by a guide plate 8 and a guide roller 9 which are arranged opposite to each other at the fils position.

A pair of wrinkle correction rollers 10 and 11 are provided at the upper side of the above-mentioned alignment conveyance path 7 with the conveyance path 7 in between. The roller 10 is pivotally supported by a shaft 12, and the other roller 11 is pivotally supported by the free end of a rod 14 whose base end is pivotally connected by a pin 13. It is pressed and biased.

One of these wrinkle correction rollers 10 and 11 is driven in the conveyance direction, and these wrinkle correction rollers 10 and 11 are rotated.
By passing the banknote between 11 and 11, the creases are smoothed out.

The wrinkle correction roller 10 described in "U" and the pulley 15 provided on the lower side thereof include a roller at a position facing the conveyor belt 4.
A pair of left and right auxiliary belts 16 are stretched, and the auxiliary belts 16 and the conveyor belt 4 are opposed to each other with a gap so as to apply a small conveyance force to the entire banknote.

On the lower side of the auxiliary belt 16 mentioned above, the conveyance path 7 in this part is slightly bent in a slanted shape, and the conveyor belt 4
[An auxiliary belt 17 is provided to face each other. This auxiliary belt 17 is stretched around the pulleys 18, 19, 20, and the auxiliary belt 17 on the pulley 20 portion is attached to the conveyor belt /V +-
4, the next stage processing section (not shown) applies a strong conveying force to the banknotes in order to send out the K banknotes. The banknotes are designed to be weak, so that banknotes can be easily aligned.

Further, the alignment point 21 is set at the portion where the aforementioned conveyor belt 4 and the auxiliary belt 17 in the pulley 20 portion come into contact.

In addition, a triangular space 22 is formed at the connecting part of the auxiliary bell 16 and 1 described above, and when the bills are consecutively arranged, this space is used for aligning the tips of the preceding bills. When the point 21 is reached, the trailing edge of the bill is in the above-mentioned space 2.
2, so that even if the leading edge of a subsequent banknote enters, the edges of the banknotes do not collide with each other, that is, jamming does not occur.

On the upper side of the above-mentioned auxiliary bell) 17, an outer blade 23 is fixed to an installed shaft 24 at an appropriate interval on the left and right, and this impeller 23 has blades made of a soft rubber material implanted therein. By forming the banknotes and rotating them in the 1lfla feeding direction, a conveying force and vibrations are applied to the banknotes to facilitate alignment.

On the upper side of the above-mentioned alignment point 21, at positions V'c on the left and right in the width direction of the conveyance path 7, a width adjustment roller 25, which is an example of width adjustment means, is provided.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the above-mentioned width adjusting roller 2
5 is the distance between the circumferential surfaces of the conveyance path 7 in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance surface; for example, if a banknote discrimination section is provided at the rear stage, the banknote discrimination section It is set within the range that can be read 11X.

A pulley 27 for inputting driving force is fixed to the aforementioned shaft 26, and the shaft 26 is cantilevered by a fixed member 28.

'' A drive shaft 29 installed in the width direction of the conveyor 1I87 is provided at the lower part of the double shaft 26, and a pulley 30 fixed to this drive shaft 29 is connected to a belt 31 and an idler 7'-! J32
The driving force is transmitted to the pulley 27 of the width shifting loaf 25 described above.

In addition, the above-mentioned idle pulley 32 has a pair of left and right,
Banknotes conveyed by bearings on a shaft 34 installed on a fixed member 33 are brought closer to a predetermined range in the center.

Alignment stoppers 35 are provided at the left and right positions of the alignment point 21 of the conveyance path 7 described above so as to be able to move forward and backward with respect to the conveyance path 7, and when the stoppers 35 are projected, they come into contact with the front edge of the banknotes, and the banknotes are Align the leading edge of the paper perpendicular to the conveying direction.

The above-mentioned alignment stopper 35 has its base end fixed to an operating shaft 36, the middle part of an operating lever 37 is connected and fixed to this operating shaft 36, and stopper driving means are provided at both ends of this operating lever 37. An example of the % active first solenoid 3
8 and a second solenoid 39 for release are respectively connected. The robot is operated to exit from the conveyance path 7 in order to speed up the exit response.

A banknote detector 40, which is an example of a detection means, is provided on the left and right positions of the conveyance path 7 of the auxiliary belt 16 portion described above, and this detector 40 is constituted by a well-known photoelectric sensor. Detects the arrival of banknotes being transported.

FIG. 5 shows a control circuit, in which the CPU 41 controls each circuit device according to a set program, and the transport system drive section 42
drives and controls the conveyor belt 4, the wrinkle correction roller 101, the impeller 23, and the width adjusting roller 25, and the timer 43 measures the set times TO and Tl.

The above-mentioned time TO is a time to detect the interval between continuously conveyed banknotes, and time T1 is a time when the stopper 35 is moved to the alignment point 21.
This is the time required to protrude the banknotes, stop them, and align them.

The banknote arranging operation will be explained with reference to FIG.

In a first step 51, the CPU 41 controls the conveyance system drive unit 42 to drive the conveyor belt 4 in the conveyance direction, and this one return drive also drives the wrinkle correction rollers 10.11 in the conveyance direction. The impeller 23 and the width adjusting roller 25 are driven in the conveying direction.

These drives enable the supply conveyance path 6 and the alignment conveyance path 7 to convey banknotes.

In the third step 53, the CPU 41 dispenses a bill from the bill dispensing unit (not shown), and in the fourth step 54, the timer 43
is set to clock time TO.

The banknotes fed out in the previous stage are supplied to the supply conveyance path 6, conveyed to the alignment conveyance section 7, and when passing through the wrinkle correction rollers 10, 11, the folds of the banknotes are smoothed out by the pressure of the rollers 10, 11. and supplied to the detector 40.

The CPU 41 checks in a fifth step 55 whether either of the left or right detectors 40 has detected a banknote, and when it is detected, reads the time counted by the timer 43 in a sixth step 56 and sets it in a seventh step 57. Compare with time TO.

The above time comparison is not valid for the first banknote, but is valid for the second and subsequent banknotes. That is, since the stopper 35 on the downstream side of conveyance moves in and out of the conveyance path 7, when bills are conveyed continuously, the interval between the bills is required to allow the above-mentioned stopper 35 to move in and out.

The above-mentioned time TOi: This is set by replacing the above-mentioned bill interval with a time, and it is determined that the above-mentioned stopper 35 cannot move in and out between the bills at a bill interval of less than this time TO. When it is determined in the seventh step 57 that the timer 43 has counted the set time of 10 or more, the first driving solenoid 38 is turned on in the eighth step 58, and the ninth step 59
cents the time T1.

The above-mentioned time T1 is set to the time required for the banknotes detected by the banknote detector 40 to reach the alignment point 21 and to be aligned in contact with the stopper 35.

When the bill passes through the aforementioned detector 40 and reaches the impeller 23,
This applies vibration, and furthermore, both sides are guided by the left and right width adjusting rollers 25. At this time, if the conveyance position of the banknote is too far to one side of the conveyance path 7, the impeller 23
By applying vibration and guiding the width adjustment roller 25 to the center, the width is adjusted to a set range.

When the first solenoid 38 is turned ON in the eighth step 58 described above, the stopper 35 projects its tip into the conveyance path 7 and blocks the conveyance of banknotes, and the forward edge of the conveyed banknotes touches the left and right stoppers. 35.

If the banknotes are conveyed in an inclined position, the front edges of the banknotes are aligned at right angles to the conveyance direction by the above-described abutment.

The CPU 41H reads the clock time of the timer 43 at the 10th step 60, checks whether the set time T1 has elapsed, and when the time has elapsed, turns off the first solenoid 38 at the 11th step 61, and releases it at the 12th step 62. Turn on the second solenoid 39.

By this operation, the stopper 35 exits from the conveyance path 7 at a high speed, and the banknotes aligned by the stopper 35 are conveyed to the next processing section.Since the conveyance force at the alignment point 21 is still set strong, the banknotes are It does not disturb the alignment.

In a thirteenth step 63, the CPU 41 determines whether either of the left or right banknote detectors 40 has detected the passage of a banknote;
When the passage of a banknote is detected, the time measurement for the set time TO is cleared in a fourteenth step 64, and then the time measurement for this time TO is set again.

In other words, time is measured to check the interval between banknotes being conveyed.

In the 15th step 65, the CPU 41 turns off the second solenoid 39, determines whether all the bills fed out in the 16th step 66 have been finished, and when it has finished, ends the I'i sorting process, but the sorting is not complete. If all the steps have not been completed, the process returns to the fifth step 55.

In the seventh step 57 described above, if it is determined that the set time TO is short, the interval between the banknote and the preceding banknote is narrow and the stopper 35 cannot be moved in and out, so the process is performed in the first step.
Step 3 is skipped to step 63, and the banknotes pass through the second alignment point without performing the alignment process.

In the above-described implementation, the width adjustment means for the banknotes was performed by the width adjustment roller 25, but as shown in FIG. It may also be configured by forming.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 1 is a side view of a banknote processing device. Figure 2 is a front view of the main parts. FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway bottom view of the width adjustment roller. Figure 4 is a partially cutaway front view. FIG. 5 is a control circuit block diagram. @Figure 6 is a flowchart. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing another example of the width adjusting means. 4... Conveyance belt 7... Alignment conveyance path 21
... Alignment point 25 ... Width adjustment roller 35 ...
Alignment stopper 38...first solenoid 40...
Banknote detector 41...CPU43...Timer Fig.1

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A conveyance path with a weak conveyance force at the alignment point 1 and a strong conveyance force after the alignment point, and a conveyance path that is movable in and out at the alignment point of the conveyance path, and is provided in front of the banknotes when ejected. A predetermined range 111 in the center of the conveyance path, the edge of which is provided in the conveyance path on the upper side of the nutoppa at a right angle to the conveyance direction.
a width shifting means for shifting the banknotes across the width; a detection means provided on the conveyance path on the second hand side of the navigation stopper for detecting the arrival of the banknotes; Based on the alignment point, is there a driving means for pushing the banknotes to touch the slipper at the alignment point? What is claimed is: 1. A processing device for paper waste δ, comprising a control means for controlling the drive.